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The British Library has launched a new competition called #ShareMyThesis. The competition challenges both current and past PhD students to create a tweet summarising in 140 characters or less why their PhD research is important. The competition is open PhD students worldwide and from all subject areas. There will be prizes for the first, second Read moreabout #ShareMyThesis competition launched by the British Library

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Research Libraries UK (RLUK) has made it even easier for Cardiff University staff and researchers to use other libraries in the UK and Ireland. RLUK has developed a new Access Agreement where members have agreed to open up access to both their printed and online collections (where permissible) to staff and researchers from the RLUK Read moreabout New RLUK agreement extends library access for staff and researchers

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Congratulations to the ORCA and Open Access team from the University Library Service and IT who won an award at this year’s Celebrating Excellence Awards. The Celebrating Excellence Awards are an opportunity to recognise staff who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment and contribution to the University and acknowledge team and collaborative achievements. The ORCA and Read moreabout Success at the Celebrating Excellence Awards 2014

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The British Library will be holding a series of Open Days for doctoral students in January and February 2015. The Open Days aim to introduce new PhD students to the British Library. Students will learn about the British Library’s collections, how to access them and meet the British Library’s expert staff as well as other Read moreabout Doctoral student Open Days at the British Library

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In celebration of the 7th annual Open Access week, the ORCA and Open Access teams extend an invitation to all research-active staff and students to attend a drop-in session in your local University Library. The aim of each session is to answer any queries about making best use of ORCA, uploading your research publications, developments Read moreabout Events celebrating Open Access Week

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Call For Participants is a new website where you can advertise your active and upcoming research studies and find research participants for free. You can create your own landing page to highlight your research, explain the tasks you would like potential participants to undertake and set customised screening questions. Call For Participants is not discipline Read moreabout A new way to reach research participants…

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If you would like to know more about Open Access (OA), the Open Access Team have created an interactive Decision Chart to help researchers identify the OA options and requirements for their publications. The pie chart, available via https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/openaccesschart, will guide authors through the steps to making their research available via Open Access. Additional information can Read moreabout New Open Access publishing decision chart

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The Library has recently invested in a range of new journal packages to help support the work of the University’s students, staff and researchers. Alongside the University of Chicago Press there are new titles from: Brill – 208 titles Duke University Press – 42 titles University of California Press – 40 titles Institute of Physics Read moreabout Additional journal titles now available!